Inside Nick Foles retirement press conference speech: ‘I was meant to play here’

PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Eagles honored former quarterback Nick Foles, who final month selected to retire with the workforce he led to their first Tremendous Bowl.

Firstly of his speech, Foles mentioned he went into the retirement presser ‘calm, cool and picked up,’ till former Philadelphia Eagle Jason Kelce prompted a shock pregame that received him prepared.

“I get a textual content message from Jason Kelce saying like, ‘Hey, man, will you come over and be a part of me on the Countdown? I received a canine masks,” Foles mentioned. “We go over there, Fletcher Cox is there,..earlier than I do know it we’re leaping on stage at Xfinity Reside carrying two canine masks ripping them off cheering up the group.”

Foles then defined his gratitude for enjoying for town and the workforce in inexperienced.

Foles turned a Philadelphia legend when he stepped in for the injured Carson Wentz within the 2017 season and led the Eagles on an inconceivable Tremendous Bowl run.

“I take into consideration what it meant to town to win that Tremendous Bowl and do it the way in which we did it in opposition to all odds,” Foles, who received the Tremendous Bowl LII MVP Award, informed PhiladelphiaEagles.com. “I believe it resonates with the Metropolis of Philadelphia so properly, and it’ll ceaselessly.”

“To finish it this manner is the appropriate method, and it means rather a lot to me,” Foles mentioned. 

“I’ve dreamed of going out of that tunnel at the very least as soon as extra and being there with the group and seeing them cheering on the Eagles, cheering on this workforce – it is a new workforce every 12 months – and I actually do not know what the feelings shall be like,” Foles mentioned.